1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

When i lived in houston and someone would kill their car driving through flood water i was quick to suggest flotation tires.

 

I've got a good topic of conversation.

I work as an architectural technician/BIM technician. I model buildings for construction coordination purposes. no schooling, I was hired right out of high school. i now have about 2.5 years of experience mostly in commercial buildings. this last year I made a smidge under $50k I feel under-used, overlooked, and I feel like they are preventing me from progressing.

My brother in law owns a residential construction company and he approached me about being his BIM Manager. id be in charge of ALL things BIM. a step up compared to my current job. for context, he bought an easyframe saw (automated wall panel saw), and he needs someone to run the software to program the saw. for a while ill be doing some hourly side work for him, but it looks like it will probably turn into full time.

How much more should i ask for? any advice for me? I'm 20, married, baby on the way and sometimes I feel like I'm just stumbling through things.

 

First off, I still feel like I'm stumbling through things and I'm more than twice your age, with our 2nd of two about to hit the double digits. Never let that get to you, know it's normal for people twice your age when it comes to life-altering decisions.

Second, it's not too hard to find salary comparisons online, I know Indeed has a search engine which may help? https://www.indeed.com/career/salaries

If there's an official title for the position, take a poke at it. See if there's an average number for your zip code you can throw out at the bro. LinkedIn may have similar data for you.

The big thing, I think, is benefits. You have a kid on the way. Good medical, dental, vision, and similar are going to become exponentially important. I'd stick with whoever can do you right by that for the 1st couple of years that kid is around. If both places are comparable ... go with whoever has the larger salary, maybe?

 

Going to be hard to answer your salary question without knowing where you live/work.

I can tell you definitively that being 20, married, and with a baby on the way will have little to do with your salary.
I can also definitively tell you that everyone stumbles through everything at 20. Don't let that bring you down. We ALL went through it. Hell, some of us are still stumbling through.

 

See, I've actually wondered if the 3 peak thing is marketing BS. This is interesting though.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=125

 

lack of degree and formal education will mean you will be overlooked, undervalued and suffer lack of progression. It’s unfortunate, but the bias is towards the paper that says your qualified vs the experience that shows you are. Continue your certification or degree advancement while working if you want to keep moving (through a corporate world). Or strike out on your own if the opportunity presents and blaze your own trail. Otherwise the opportunities may be limited with larger organizations. Unless, and this has always been true, YOU KNOW SOMEBODY. Who can be way more important than what you know.

 

worth a shot.

 

you miss 100% of the shots you dont take

 

Seems like selling the geolanders is the thing to do, they don't really fit in with your plan.

What kind of snow do you run into with the taco and is it 4 wheel drive? Are we talking snowy road up donner pass or 2 feet of snow and dirt trails? Could you use regular tires and then the chains?

I have chains for both cars and it's amazing in 4 wheel drive chained up how much snow you can push through!

If you have the 285 on the tundra, and then a set of summer and winter tires on the Tacoma that doesn't seem too crazy.

 

Am I a total freaking idiot? I can't seem to figure out how to make a Poll, neither on a thread I've already created nor a new thread I'm starting.

 

Relocating the Van Halen discussion

I'm right there with you. Van Haggar I've never liked. David was hard to take serious, more of a showman than real musician or writer (if he wrote songs). Seems like he would be at home on a Broadway musical, not in a rock band. I think the band itself was talented and could rock out, I just never heard any songs where I liked the lyrics. Many of their songs I just can't stand.

Hot for teacher would be the closest for me. The guitar is cool, drums are solid, lyrics are pretty cheeky but relatable. I had a smooooking hot match teacher in high school. I never paid so much attention and still failed to learn anything in my life.

 

110% CANNOT relate to having a hot teacher.
Not ever in my whole life.

I feel like I've been denied something everyone else got. #discrimination

 

Top corner of your thread, thread tools.
@FirstGenVol helped me out the first time

 

So you literally need to create a thread first? I went to the XenForo support area, they made it sound like there's a link to it or something.

Sadly, I feel like I'd seen and even screencapped the Thread Tools option for polls when helping people change their thread title. *sigh*

 

You have to create the thread first, open the thread, then you can hit edit and the "add a poll" button should be there. It isn't very intuitive. I backed out of creating two poll threads because on the thread creation page I couldn't find the option and felt stupid.

 

Yes. I thought it was stupid too.

 

Maybe we should start a poll in the green room area. "Should adding a poll be in the thread creation page"

 

Anyone who votes no is immediately banned.

 

I’m 47, consider myself good at what I do, and overlooked. To succeed in corporate ‘merica requires playing a specific game which I don’t play.

There are levels of intermediate satisfaction in specific niches.

Seventh grade, science teacher, Mrs. Wood, I kid you not. Still dreamy after all these years.

So I do have chains. But I have a very uncompromising wife and impatient kids. In 5 years the kids might be more capable in which case chains and AT's would be a good combo. At this age (6 and 4) with potential for an uncompromising wife, the thought of trying to get chains on while they are inside and the yelling is escalating is so stressful that I would rather just not even consider it at all. Just the whole family dynamic thing I guess.

With that said, the hakka's are fantastic in the rain too. The only real downside I see to a soft winter tire where it isn't truly winter weather is potential wear. Given my super low miles and rotating them out for summers, it's a complete non-issue. Upside of an AT would be what specifically? Longer life? But if I age out instead of wear out that's not a plus for me. Definitely is a factor on the minivan, that's for sure.

Yeah, either the geolanders or the destinations should probably get the boot. Part of me thinks the geolanders would be more fun with a more aggressive look and a tiny bit more ground clearance. But it'd be purely aesthetics rather than optimized for the common case of going to the grocery store or USPS to drop off my 7oz boxes.

On a side note, my unofficial business goal 10 year plan is to accumulate enough biz revenue to buy a tesla semi to take said boxes to USPS. I think that would be the ultimate level of overall stupidity. On the flip side, 200k of net profit over 10 years is only 20k/year, a highly reasonable target. Gotta have goals, right?

 

I missed a lot of detail in this heated debate. Which geolandars are they? If the AT-S (AT or GO15 model) I think they carry a snowflake and are pretty good in snow. Not sure if you plan on taking the taco up to Julian to have apple pie in the snow but if so that might help the decision. If not, then maybe keep the 245s on the Taco, sell the Yokos.

Those Hakkaaakaakkakaakavaakians I've never seen before but from looking at them I understand the obsession. I'd be hesitant to let them go as well.

 

Yeah, I'll keep hakkelaalalapalliita on for winters and hopefully we do real stuff with them. I did mammoth last year with the boys and my dad. So far I haven't broken away for winter fun b/c we have a flight to big white planned for March and my wife says no to long road trips. I would overrule her but the whole pandemic thing puts a damper on travel. Hoping for better times next year, each year the boys get older and more capable.

Geo's are X-AT, about 1000 miles on 4, one brand new, got 'em at a great price, would sell easy I think but also kind of more special than firestone destinations which I could get anywhere.

 

I am really, really, really, super hating FedEx right now. I know I'm not alone in having massive problems with their delivery service. What the hell is going on over there?

This package was shipped using their "3-day saver" option. We're at the 3 day mark and it's only made it through across 3 states out of the dozen it needs to travel.

 

Something like that should use military grade circular connectors with fully molded cables to prevent water contamination and everything else. I'm not sure what electrician got away with that unless it was back in a time when electrical codes were almost non-existent.

 

That's at Penn State.
Be glad the pool is warmed and the toilets are on separate water.
#boilerup

 

The very best part is if you want to press the issue, it's nearly impossible.
The shipper is the one that has to file a claim. And once you get your stuff, they've washed their hands of you and your order.
Coupled with the fact that if you start your claim before the package arrives it never will, you are in a no-win situation.

Now if it's from a friend or a very small biz that actually cares, they may be able to have the shipping charges reversed. But you still don't get your stuff in the timeframe you needed.

 

After you shared this I got two of these for the wife and I. Best $10 I've spent in a while.

 

https://i.imgur.com/bFlK7ZL.mp4

 

LOL, he looks so deflated when the engine shuts down

 

Athletic stuff is... interesting to say the least. This is pretty much standard for Colorado Time systems circa 2008ish.

Half of the shit I work on you can't get parts diagrams let alone a circuit diagram easily. We had a pitching machine burn a motor up last year literally the only place you can buy it is from the manufacturer Leeson doesn't even list it even though it has their nameplate on it.

Needed a 12v horn for our soccer scoreboard in the fall $185 from Daktronics, bought a close enough from Grainger for $60.

Everything sports related is crazy overpriced.

 

I have this one. It works great and was in use daily until I retired.

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